Columbine, tbh.

The UK clamped down with the Hungerford Massacre and then outright banmed handguns following the school shooting in Dunblane, the UK's only school shooting.

The Australians fixed things after Port Arthur.

It shouldn't reallt take more than one to mend the issue. By Sandy Hook, the US had already made its decision, it was already too late.

North-western Scotland is weird, and I say that living there. We have some good rail routes, but there are limits. The existing lines usually use two carriages and aren't super frequent (and take a while, 5.5hrs from Glasgow to Mallaig on the West Highland line) and outside the height of summer its often very empty. Wonderful life line, but there are limits given our low population density spread amongst the mountains (plus there's a lot of public transport here that aren't trains, like the ferries that connect the islands and peninsula communities). It's odd. Probably could do with a line from Fort William to Inverness, but that's the only real demand left. Most of the people live on the east coast, which is served by Edinburgh-Dundee-Aberdeen-Inverness line, so it really just needs a line for people on the west coast to easily access the capital of the Highlands.

The Borders are also pretty sparse, again due to mountains and population, but you can see the Central Belt of Scotland and the major cities of Northern England have quite a lot of rail.

Yeah, topography plays a big part, though tbf part of that is also it tends to decrease population density. So chicken and egg in a way.

Yeah, we got our laws on guns because of Hungerford (which made the first big raft) and Dunblane massacres. They've also been perfectly fine, and iirc the Republic of Ireland manages well with similar gun laws. Northern Ireland allows guns for self defence, but Northern Ireland is a very peculiar and unique country.

The anti-protest laws were done by the post-Brexit lunge to the far right that Johnson and Truss spearheaded. It was not part of some major plot, it was the result of authoritarians like those two and the ERG suddenly being able to wield power due to a massive political crisis in the UK.

Also, given Switzerland was the main example for comparison, it probably makes sense to connect it with other countries in its neighbourhood. Basically saying Switzerland isn't a massive producer like the other eight big European producers, which is relevant.

Tbf, could just not be to his tastes as well. That said, it's such a common takeaway staple that it won't hurt the business if he doesn't personally like it.

I do like meself a good fish supper, though.

Crushes are a problem, aye, that's usually a matter of when the game ends (or a riot). Some major ones happened at Ibrox as well, each one caused more changes in either policy and even construction of the exits.

Colonel Bogey March is quite common tbf, but it is widely associated and recognised with Bridge over the River Kwai.